My buddy chris, up at peddlers mall, (he's on the forums here but never posts and I'm not sure of his SN... Simon do you know what he registered by here?) hooked me up with a single carded jango fett and a boba fett today. The boba fett is most likely going to remain MIB since I have two coming in from phatty (can't wait!)....
anyways... so I couldn't resist opening jango and messing with him... I was going to keep him MIB but I figured I had the same sculpted figure in the EVO box so I'm not too concerned about it.... I think if I try to get every boxed variation of a figure's sculpt then I'll go crazy... and broke!
anyways, so I wanted to give this jango a super arty joe torso treatment. Very similar to the scout trooper.
So I popped jango open, removed his lower legs and test fitted a few joe parts. For jango you have to use a joe that has the torso joint in the gut area instead of the chest, so a figure like cobra commander worked best. I finally decided on using the Resolute cobra commander's torso as it fit the best... not perfect, but the best. I wanted to do this without having to dremel anything. This is to show that anyone with an exacto knife and some patience can pull off exactly the same thing!
here is what I have so far. Right now he's got the legs from Major Bludd, I liked the thighs of that figure because it has a sculpted patch of "armor" that is very similar to jango's thigh armor. I havn't decided on whether to use the evo style jango's lower legs and boots that have the shin armor sculpted to them or use a joe figure's legs and make a cast resin duplicate of the removable shin armor from the other jango......
enough talk:
oh yeah, I also used the head from the republic comando in the commando evo pack, the one with the red kama and removable helmet. I liked the lines and sculpting of that head better than the flabby jango face... a hardend bounty hunter shouldn't look like a flabby well fed teenager....
Ok, heres where I need your all's input. Look at the two images above and tell me which belt/holster set looks best. One has the cod piece included and the other doesn't. I think I'll wind up using the one with the cod piece because I won't have to fabricate one that way...
ALSO... I know there is a hight difference! Don't go rambling about how much taller he is... I know that. It seems like every time I do one of these S/A figs someone complains about how much taller they turn out. I don't care that he's taller. He's going to stand next to all my other 4" S/A figures! lol... ok... tell me what you guys think and answer my questions.
